Introduction Hormones play a foundational role in the …show more content…
This position in the food chain allows plants to sustain life on Earth through agriculture. Plants have many other significant contributions to human life such as providing a source of medicinal properties for pharmaceuticals and other industrial uses (Dunn, 2013). For this reason, it is important to study the nature of plant growth in order to maximize the available resources that naturally grow on Earth. In this experiment a plant growth hormone called auxin and its synthetic counterparts will be tested in order to determine their effectiveness on plant